Patrick J. Kennedy Quotes
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An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.
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Here he tells us that the new birth is first of all 'not of blood'. You don't get it through the blood stream, through heredity. Your parents can give you much, but they cannot give you this.
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The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?' My answer to that would be, 'No.'
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Very much alone in my work, I am almost jealous of it.
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What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive.
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We're at maybe 1% of what is possible. Despite the faster change, we're still moving slow relative to the opportunities we have. I think a lot of that is because of the negativity... Every story I read is Google vs someone else. That's boring. We should be focusing on building the things that don't exist.
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Everything can be satirized.
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When I was a kid growing up, I always thought I would be a journalist, and I thought, you know, I'd cover stories about other people, and we're always taught never to make the story about yourself.
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American stuntmen are smart - they think about safety. When they do a jump in a car, they calculate everything: the speed, the distance... But in Hong Kong, we don't know how to count. Everything we do is a guess. If you've got the guts, you do it. All of my stuntmen have gotten hurt.
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Through the years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.
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When you try to predict future E.R.A.'s with past E.R.A.'s, you're making a mistake.
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What my future will not be is active politics in the Liberal Democrat party.
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Death is not extinction. Neither the soul nor the body is extinguished or put out of existence.
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Honestly, I find the analysis of dreams is one of the dullest things. I say this as a therapist kid. I find them deeply uninteresting, as a window to the soul.
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I look a hundred and weigh 110 – you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me.
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I'm always watching people over a short time frame, putting them in an extreme position. Sometimes you don't see the humanity in a person because the time frame is so short and the circumstance so extreme.
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I've known the glory of the stage and the glory of the spotlight. I still crave it. I want to be on 'American Bandstand' and 'Soul Train' as a solo artist. As a producer, songwriter and arranger, I help other artists say what they want to say. But on my records, I say what I want to say.
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I developed a resistance to authority. Not to discipline - I learned that. But to authority. I like to think for myself. And I like to cause trouble.
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There is no other prize in any country that carries the prestige that a Nobel bestows.
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I'm a rock singer, but I love soul, I love blues, and I love theatrical stuff, too, like theatrical rock like Queen and Meat Loaf.
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I spit when I talk, I'll fuck anything that walks. When I was little, I used to get so hungry I would throw fits. How you gonna breast-feed me, ma, you ain't got no tits!
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There are many respects in which America, if it can bring itself to act with the magnanimity and the empathy appropriate to its size and power, can be an intelligent example to the world.
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The success of ordinary cosmology speaks against the idea that the universe was created in a random fluctuation.
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In my state, over 17,000 households are going hungry on a regular basis.